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The American Teen Study, which began in May 1991, was a peer-reviewed study on adolescent sexual risk-taking behavior whose funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development was shut down by former secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Louis Sullivan. [16]
An at-risk student is a term used in the United States to describe a student who requires temporary or ongoing intervention in order to succeed academically. [1] At risk students, sometimes referred to as at-risk youth or at-promise youth, [2] are also adolescents who are less likely to transition successfully into adulthood and achieve economic self-sufficiency. [3]
[2] [3] It is one of the major sources of information about these risk behaviors, and is used by federal agencies to track drug use, sexual behavior, and other risk behaviors. The YRBSS was created in 1990 [2] in order to monitor progress towards protecting youth from HIV infection.
In addressing this question, it is important to distinguish whether adolescents are more likely to engage in risky behaviors (prevalence), whether they make risk-related decisions similarly or differently than adults (cognitive processing perspective), or whether they use the same processes but value different things and thus arrive at ...
It asked questions on traditional forms of bullying, as well as cyberbullying, risk behaviors and self–reported health and life satisfaction. 66% of the students said that they had never been bullied, 14% had been victims of traditional forms of bullying, 10% had been victims of cyberbullying, and the remaining 10% had been victims of both ...
Both peer group pressure and control were positively related to risky behaviors. However, adolescents who were more committed to a personal identity had lower rates of risk behaviors. Overall, this study shows us that adolescent identity development may help prevent negative effects of peer pressure in high-risk adolescents. [46]
Peer pressure is commonly associated with episodes of adolescent risk-taking because these activities commonly occur in the company of peers. [9] Affiliation with friends who engage in risky behaviors has been shown to be a strong predictor of an adolescent's own behavior. [11]
They may experiment with different roles, behaviors, and ideologies as part of this process of developing an identity. [2] Teenage rebellion has been recognized within psychology as a set of behavioral traits that supersede class, culture, or race; [3] some psychologists, however, have disputed the universality of the phenomenon. [4]